Buying sustainable aviation gasoline (SAF) simply received slightly simpler, due to the discharge of a web based platform that enables consumers to shortly examine worth and different attributes of various fuels.
Fuels derived from waste cooking oil and different sustainable sources are on the coronary heart of the aviation business’s efforts to decarbonize, however buying SAF is nothing like reserving a flight. Consumers, working individually or by the Sustainable Aviation Consumers Alliance (SABA), usually start by asking SAF suppliers to submit proposals for vetting.
“These are pretty time-consuming efforts,” stated Andre de Fontaine, a managing director on the Middle for Inexperienced Market Activation, one of many non-profits that runs SABA. “They take someplace between 18 and 24 months to run.”
Members solely
The alliance has moved to streamline the method with at this time’s launch of SAFc Join, a platform containing info on carbon depth, pricing, feedstock and different attributes of SAF certificates for fuels pre-vetted by SABA. The platform is open to alliance members, which embrace Amazon, Deloitte, Netflix amongst 32 different firms.
“As an alternative of operating an RFP yearly each time they wish to purchase SAF certificates, they will now go right into a managed database assured that the gasoline has been vetted for high quality standards,” stated de Fontaine.
Not less than 5 SAF suppliers — Alaska Air, Future Power World, Worldwide Airways Group, Targray and Valero — shall be a part of SAFc Join at launch. SABA expects as much as double that quantity to return on board in coming months.
Guide and declare
The scheme operates on a book-and-claim foundation, that means that consumers can use the certificates to offset Scope 3 aviation emissions with out really flying planes that burn SAF. This strategy, additionally being utilized in maritime transport and for rail freight, permits consumers to assist sellers even when they can’t instantly entry the low-carbon transport on supply.
Though de Fontaine wouldn’t disclose seemingly costs, he famous that SABA’s final RFP, whereas not essentially predictive of future costs, produced certificates within the vary of $300 to $500 per metric ton of carbon dioxide. An economy-class spherical journey from New York to London creates round 0.6 tons of CO2, in line with the Worldwide Civil Aviation Group.
SABA has labored with company consumers to combination demand for over $400 million in SAF certificates since launching in 2021 and expects members utilizing SAFc Connect with have fast demand for round $30 million in certificates.
The alliance additionally lately launched an RFP for next-generation sustainable fuels, together with “e-fuels,” which could be synthesized from CO2 and water in a response powered by renewable power. The transfer comes as some environmental teams proceed to query the sustainability of fuels made out of crops, a category of SAF that’s anticipated to play an necessary function within the short-term development of the market.
This story was up to date on Could 28, 2025 to extra precisely mirror the value of certificates in SABA’s earlier RFP.
